From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Is it possible to do literate programming without org-babel? Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:25:49 +0000 Message-ID: <87bp53q6fm.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <4CF8EC16.40500@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53065 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POWaD-0003t5-6n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:25:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POWaC-0007SB-16 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:25:57 -0500 Received: from vscane-a2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.42]:57582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POWaB-0007RU-LO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:25:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4CF8EC16.40500@gmail.com> (I. S.'s message of "Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:09:42 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "I.S." Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org "I.S." writes: > Dear Experts, > > I think org-babel is great and use it when I can. But on larger > projects where some people are not emacs users, it may not be feasible > for the master file to be an org-mode file. > > Do you have any suggestions on using literate programming techniques > when the source code must be in a .py file? > > One thing I have tried is switching to org-mode when I want to write > comments, create links, etc. and do that in org-mode and then switch > back to python mode. This actually works reasonably well but it's > annoying to switch modess. > > Any better ideas? This probably is not going to help you but I have the same problem. What I do, *when* the project is one in which I am the main lead, is to keep using org mode, without switching modes, but when I need to share something with my collaborator, I *tangle* all the code and send him both the code and the org document. This means that he can run the code. However, the code has no comments in it... Of course, incorporating any changes my collaborator makes back into the org document is annoying but manageable. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1 : using Org-mode version 7.3 (release_7.3.169.g0d0e)